With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.




Photo by Michael Muller. Image design by Gene Bresler at Catch Light Digital. Cobver design by Jerome Curchod.
Phoebe Bridgers makeup: Jenna Nelson (using Smashbox Cosmetics)
Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
The Los Angeles Issue

Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums
This new box breaks down seven well-framed sets of sessions spanning 1983 to 2018, essentially designed as full-album capsules of mood previously deemed unfit for canonization.

Gelli Haha, Switcheroo
The songwriter’s debut is carefree, sleazy, fundamentally arresting dance music—a multi-sensory circus serving to wallpaper the halls of dance-pop history with neon, acid-tinged nonsense.

Wavves, Spun
The LA band’s eighth LP eschews distortion in favor of a cleaner pop-punk sound that both spotlights Nathan Williams’ songwriting chops and dulls the project’s compelling eccentricities.
Mike LeSuer

The Philadelphia-based artist discusses her band’s new album “Like a Stone” and her dedication to songwriting.

Michael Caridi’s post-LVL UP project has expanded to a four piece, as heard on the dual single out today via Double Double Whammy.

Roddy Bottum and Joey Holman list 16 tracks that match the queer affection of their new debut record.

The new comp demonstrates just how comfortable Deathbomb Arc’s vocalists are working over borderline-nonsense electronics courtesy of Hausu Mountain.

Cooper Handy’s new album “The Music Industry Is Poisonous” is out now.

The LA rapper and multi-instrumentalist’s new album is available on Bandcamp today via POW Recordings.

The Richmond rapper on his new album “For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her” and the pitfalls of genre.

Hannah D‘Amato answers some of our burning questions about the Oakland rockers’ recent self-titled debut (and milk).

You can listen to “Everything Pale Blue” in full ahead of its Friday release via Orindal Records.

The LA-based songwriter is sharing a video for the track from his newly released “Keep Trying” EP.

The month’s most discourse-worthy singles, according to our Senior Editor.

The artist shares how the expansive set of songs featuring Mac DeMarco, Cola Boyy, and more came together.

The New Orleans–based duo’s latest LP, “I Could Only See Night,” is out now.

It’s the second track Bauer’s released this year via his label Fortune Tellers.

With news of a second Trust Records pressing of their seminal 1980 debut album “Group Sex,” Morris tells us what he was jamming in the early ’80s.

It’s the second track released from the Beijing group’s forthcoming “Phantom Rhythm Remixed.”

It’s the latest single from the Chicago group’s self-titled final album.

The songwriter’s Epitaph debut “Sucker Supreme” arrives this Friday.

The industrial Toronto duo’s fifth album arrives this fall via Felte.

With his Captured Tracks debut “Some Days” out today, Jeremy Haywood-Smith shares a playlist of some of his favorite tracks by Winnipeg peers.